post possible explanations for why people are still keeping the cameras running in a found footage movie

you're going to sue so many people when this is over and you need the evidence

They’re professional photojournalists, they’re not going to NOT film this

shit's gonna go viral if they survive

they forgot how

for the vine

(That is in fact the explanation in [•REC]. And when shit gets fucked to the point where that starts feeling thin, all the lights go out and they need to use the camera’s night vision to navigate)

No one is going to believe this shit if they don't keep filming, and oftentimes in this movie the easiest explanation would be that the person who survived was responsible for the deaths/injuries/whatever.

for the bit

entire found footage movie is actually a home movie performance put together by ghosts because being dead is really boring and they need to do something to keep themselves entertained

button stuck : (

We had the camera running? What the fuck.

the ghosts took the camera

the characters are being followed by a documentary crew who are not actually part of the story, a la WWDITS

This takes place on a world where people are person/camera hybrids, it just didn't come up in the script

it starts at a wedding and the person holding the camera spends the entire movie just a little uncertain if the wedding is "off" in the sense that they're not expected to keep recording, and everybody is too busy to ask

they have anxiety

your insurance demands frankly horrible levels of proof

Pretty sure the hellraiser movies have a cenobite that is just a camerahead, he follows around all found footage photographers to make sure they record until the instant they die (or he'll kill them)

they're home movie weirdos